Some games grow old, doom 3 matures, or you know maybe it is just me who matured since the first time I have played back in it's day, when it didn't really impressed me.
Now I can say for sure that it can easily hold it's ground graphics wise and it can (at least from a point on) to keep the feeling of the old dooms.
The only problem is that before the hell level everything feels like a big introduction, unlike doom and doom II that thrown you in from the very first moment. Before the hell level it really feel like a generic sci fi shooter with not much symbolism.
But from the hell and on the game really find it’s rhythm, strong esoteric symbolism, level design that bring back memories from the first games.
The only thing that I don’t like is how some demons feel more like aliens than you know, demons…
Cacodemon, Hellknight, pinky demon, even the lost soul feels somewhat wrong compared to the original concept from the first games. I don’t know if this is because of my age and of what I consider (culture wise) of being a satanic or demonic being, but I do believe a flying monster with one huge eye is more terrifying than what the Cacodemon is in doom 3. Something that seems they realized in Doom 2016 (that I haven’t played yet but everything I have seen is closer to the original doom’s concept) and changed back to the originals.
Also I miss the monster infighting. While the monsters can kill each other by mistake, they don’t fight back to the monster that first hit them.
Anyway while there are those negatives here, the game is by no way a bad game. You may find it a bit boring in the beginning but eventually you will enjoy it and keep you till the end.
Also I don’t think the new release that cost more, really worth it. The game is beautiful with the original graphics, you just need to hack the resolution up and pick the right aspect ration (it is stupid you can’t do this from the menu, the code is there and it support 4:3, 16:9 16:10 aspects and resolutions up to fullHD, you just have to manually enter this on a file and the game use it like no problem).
Posted 10 July, 2018.